“What makes me mad about the whole thing is that I believe there is a difference between errors of omission and errors of intention. We aren’t perfect and we have made errors of omission, but we never intended to mislead anybody,” Paul told the Review’s Robert Costa, saying the whole situation has been blown out of proportion.

Paul lashed out at the Associated Press and MSNBC in particular for their coverage of his Liberty University speech, which sparked the controversy. "Nobody reports on what the speech was even about," he said. "At least I saw the movie ‘Gattaca.’ I read the book ‘1984.’ They didn’t even read my damn speech.”